Many RWJF grants are awarded through a network of more than 80 program groups, called national programs. By providing leadership, fostering communication and collaboration and serving as champions of innovation, national programs can help unite distinct efforts into a broader movement that can achieve social change. National programs are typically administered by universities, nonprofit groups or Foundation staff. Below is a list of current national programs.

Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project®
To support grants and technical assistance to community coalitions to work toward high-quality, patient-centered, and equitable care.

Dartmouth Atlas Project
To support continued management, expansion and analyses of the Dartmouth Atlas data infrastructure.

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
To seek and evaluate promising interventions in health care settings to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, with an increased focus on disseminating results from the first rounds of grants and sharing lessons learned with the communities working under the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.

Medicaid Managed Care Program
Program to improve the quality of and access to Medicaid managed care by working with states, health plans, and consumer groups.

Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
To support policy analysis, research, and projects that will provide public and private decision leaders with useful and timely information on health care policy, financing, and organization issues.

Improving the Science of Continuous Quality Improvement Program and Evaluation
To improve our ability to understand the potential of continuous quality improvement processes which can result in sustainable grantee improvement.

National Quality Forum
To (1) support the National Quality Forum's leadership in the field of health care quality; (2) facilitate a partnership of national health care organizations committed to acting on priority areas for improving quality; and (3) improve the measurement of health care quality.

Targeted Quality Solicitation on Equity and Patient-Centeredness
To identify and support projects that will expand the Foundation's understanding of equity and patient-centeredness and their role in promoting quality.

Targeted Solicitation on Quality Improvement and Performance Measurement
To support two Quality/Equality batched solicitations that will help guide the work of the communities engaged in the regional quality efforts as it pertains to making care more patient-centered and reducing racial and ethnic care disparities.